Skygod

noun, slang

noun, slang ·Moderate ·College level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A skydiver, especially (approbative) a thoroughly experienced one. slang
  2. 2
    An arrogant skydiver. derogatory, slang
  3. 3
    Alternative form of sky god: a god residing in or presiding over the sky. alt-of, alternative

    "Anyhow we seem to perceive that from the early beginnings (in the Stone Age) of self-consciousness in Man there has been a gradual development - from crass superstition, senseless and accidental, to rudimentary observation, and so to belief in Magic; thence to Animism and personification of nature-powers in more or less human form, as earth-divinities or sky-gods or embodiments of the tribe[.]"

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"Anyhow we seem to perceive that from the early beginnings (in the Stone Age) of self-consciousness in Man there has been a gradual development - from crass superstition, senseless and accidental, to rudimentary observation, and so to belief in Magic; thence to Animism and personification of nature-powers in more or less human form, as earth-divinities or sky-gods or embodiments of the tribe[.]"

Etymology

From sky + god.

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